Pyston v2: Faster Python

Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by orf on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:32PM (#24923140)

I might have to eat those old words as there is some form of runtime code specialisation being considered for inclusion in CPython. It doesn’t sound like a fully-fledged JIT, but that might be a distinction without a difference.

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Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by ak217 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:06PM (#24923523)

Link?

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Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by orf on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:11PM (#24923579)

https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...

And some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318

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Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by ak217 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:25PM (#24923718)

Thanks - Mark Shannon is a core committer, right? So hopefully he has standing to get this done.

The plan looks very high level at this point, but it looks like Mark is an expert in interpreter VM and JIT technologies. All I can hope for is that he doesn't get blocked by the "keep cpython simple" obstructionism.

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Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by mrtranscendence on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:59PM (#24924080)

He thinks (they think?) the project will need to be funded to the tune of $2M. That seems like a hefty sum to me, though maybe it's doable.

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Re:Pyston v2: Faster Python by ak217 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:58PM (#24925140)

It's not that hefty once they pitch this improvement to the many wealthy VC-funded companies whose business and data science divisions depend on Python.

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